Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-08-16
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Alfaoung HaDlt hWfoN
John Taylor, President Of the Nor
mon church at Salt Lake, Is dead.
Five men were drowned by the cap
sizing OF their boat off Staten Island,
NJ
Harriet Beecher Stoves house at
Andover, Mass, was burned, Loss,
$4,000.
The ship Firth Of Dina has been lost
in cyclone in Java waters. Her en-
tire crew, numbering twenty-elght, per-
ished.
John Neave deliberately murdered
his father, Joseph Neave, at Falmouth
KY, in dispute over division oil
crops.
| Two men were killed and one badly
injured by premature explosion Of a
blast ct the granite quarries, near AL
buquerque, N. M.
Two freight trains collided at Knob
Lick, Mo. The engineer, fireman and
brakeman OF one OF the trains were
killed. Cause mistake in orders.
The barge Theodore Percy was
wrecked on Lake Michigan during a
heavy gale. Capt. Mccormick, Of
Saginaw, a crew Of four and two young
men from Saginaw, were drowned.
Two laborers, Joseph Gaback and
Harry Doyle, we're instantly killed by
the premature explosion OF blast on
the Colorado Midland Railroad. The
men were blown lifeles, their eyes pro
truding from their sockets, and theil
bodies being horribly mutilated.
| A washout occurred on the Erie
road near Cochecton, carrying away
the track just as q train loaded witt
cheese was passing. The engine and
several cars passed over in safety, bul
twenty one cars OF cheese went dowr
the bank and were totally wrecked.
The coke strike just ended in Penn
sylvania was one Of the greatest anG
most stubbornly contested battles ever
fought between capital and labor. The
money lost by the strikers and mine
owners will reach several millions
About IL 600 men participated in tn.
strike.
At Oil City, Pa, John NcNerny, &
laborer, aged 30 years, killed his wife
with an ak and mortally shot his sor
James, aged 81. When the police ar
rived he shot Officer George James ir
the groin, and he will die. Officer
Warden then shot McNerny in the
back, from the effects OF which he vii
die.
The boiler Of the Houston Lumber
Company's saw and planning mill, a
Houston, Texas, exploded, wreckint
the whole building and killing A. g
Wells, general manager of the com
pany, and Andrew Henry, engineer
Frank Wilson, laborer, is dying
One man and two boys are reported
missing.
The express ran into freight trail
standing on siding at York, Ind
killing the engineer and fireman O
the express, and seriously iniuring tn
engineer of the freight train. TIL
accident was caused by an attempt t.
wreck the train, as the switch wa
known to have been in good orde
half an hour before it was foun,
broken.
Henry Peletier, the pilot from Liver
pool who was taken to San Francisc,
against his will in the ship Occidental
has returned home with So 900 awarde,
him as damages by the Federal courts
An interesting fact in connection witt
this case is that on the return trip Q
the Occidental the captain got int
trouble with one of his crew and wa
killed in mid-Atlantic.
Close upon the heels OF the earth
quake at Bavispe, Mexico, come detail
of still greater calamity at Bacanie
town twenty miles from Bavispe.
had before the catastrophe 1900 inhat
itants. When Bavispe was destroye'
Bacanic was badly shaken, and sine
then the town has been visited by
succession Of shocks that reduced it t
ruins. Most of the people escaped, a
they fled to the country terror-stricke
on the first disturbance.
Palmer & Rey, proprietors of tn
largest and most complete type foun
dry on the Pacific coast, burned on
at San Francisco. Loss estimated
between $4,000 and $4,000. Thi
fire throws some ninety hands out Q
employment until the firm can ge
their building into proper condition
and readjust their stock. Palmer .
Rey say the fire will not effect thei
Los Angeles or Portland, Or, branches
as both carry complete stock indie
pendent Of San Francisco. They ez
pect to be in shape to handle thei
large trade inside of two or thre
weeks.
The report of the Director of tn
Mint will be about the most interest
ing and instructive document to be il
sued from the government printin
Office this year. 1t shows that the te
tai production OF gold of the Unite
States last year was 1874 1853 900, a
increase Of $3,O6S, 600 over that of tn
previous year, so that instead Of Q,
hausting our mines, as some expert
predicted would be the case soon, W
are actually increasing our production
OF precious metals. California, tn
pioneer, not content with having com
to the front as grower of grain an
fruit, still leads all States in her yiel
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